If Design Blogs Were Vehicles, What Would They Be?

If design blogs were to be transformed into motor vehicles (Transformers style!), what would they be? Now’s your chance to find out! Here’s a roundup of your favourite design blogs along their mechanical counterparts, each comparison has been scientifically matched on general theme, style, persona and character – Which one do you think is the best fit?

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is the juggernaut of the design blog world with huge traffic and subscriber statistics. As a multi-author blog Smashing Magazine pumps out high quality articles throughout the week and touches on various design related topics.

Six Revisions

Six Revisions is a popular design blog that focuses on Web Design and Development. Its clean and sophisticated grey website design allows the content to take centre stage with usability and accessibilty being carefully considered as part the overall build of the site.

Tutorial9

Tutorial9 boasts a cool blue theme with plenty of illustrated elements. The blog presents stacks of useful articles and tutorials for designers and photographers, not to mention a large collection of free downloads and resources.

GoMediaZine

Go Media’s zine showcases their design and illustrative talents through project insights and tutorials. Go Media’s apparel work and design for various metal bands never lacks in awesomeness, often containing plenty of skulls and detailed hand-drawn linework.

Colorburned

Colorburned features some of the best resources, freebies and resources for designers on the web. There’s no shortage of hand made vectors, patterns, textures and brushes to download and use to create your own graphic artwork.

Blog.SpoonGraphics

The brown and beige Blog.SpoonGraphics is home to weekly Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials that take your through the step-by-step process of creating all kinds of design styles for both print and web.

Web Design Ledger

Web Design Ledger posts the best collections of resources and roundups of design inspiration. Written by web designers, for web designers, it’s the place to go for daily tips and snippets of knowledge.

Line25

New to Line25? Stick around if you enjoy fun articles like this, or for a series of useful step-by-step web design tutorials. If inspirational posts are your thing, every Friday sees a fresh Line25 Sites of the Week collection.

Boagworld

The number one web design podcast Boagworld is broadcast from the rural depths of Dorset, with the design of the site itself staying true to its roots with grassy textures, rolling fields and the odd cow.

Soh Tanaka

The CSS and jQuery whizz Soh Tanaka has an alter ego as a Los Angeles street dancer. His dark urban themed website is tricked up with all kinds of cool effects and design features, many of which are documented and shared via his blog.

Soh Tanaka would be a… Toyota Supra

CSS-Tricks

Chris Coyier shares all kinds of CSS and jQuery knowledge on his popular CSS-Tricks blog. Not to mention his uber-useful videocasts and tutorials, as well as the busy forums which are full of like-minded CSS designers and developers.

Web Designer Depot

Web Designer Depot became hugely popular right from day one and now sits as one of the most trafficked design blogs out there. Another multi-author site this blog consistently pumps out various design showcases, tutorials and inspirational roundups.

Web Designer Wall

Nick La’s ornate and detailed watercolor floral design on Web Designer Wall still suits the site perfectly and hasn’t dated since the design was implemented during the site’s launch years ago. Web Designer Wall is home to plenty of web design tutorials, trends inspiration and giveaways.

Nazi killed 6 million jews and hundreds of thousands of other nationalities, forced relocation, seizure of assets, rape, beatings, imprisonment, murder by poison gas and brutal experiments, including tying a woman's legs together during labor to observe the suffering of the mother and time how long it took the struggling to be born child to die, half way out of her birth canal..look up Josef Mengele

I know this is supposed to be a fun post, but it seems to me like you changed your criteria throughout your post.

You start by comparing Smashing Magazine to an 18-Wheeler because of it's size, power, etc., but then switch to picking pictures of vehicles because of aesthetic qualities of the site like in Web Designer World, Boag World and Spoon Graphics…

No consideration was placed on speed, features, type of vehicle, American (which are considered to be crappy cars that don't last but a couple of years) vs. European, etc.

Again, I know this was a fun post, but it would have been really cool if you would have actually put some thought into your vehicles… I would love to know for example, which site gives you more MPG… :)

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